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Wednesday at the Didion Milling Plant in Cambria . The press release said, that twelve people suffered injuries and were transported by helicopter or ambulance to hospitals. The Columbia County Sheriff's Office confirmed on early Thursday morning that at least 1 people had been killed and about a dozen others were injured. Read More »

The owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks and star of ABC's "Shark Tank" said Democrats must call for "immediate meetings" with Trump to figure out how to "get back in" the climate pact. That includes carbon dioxide generated from burning fossil fuels blamed for a warming planet, rising sea levels, droughts and more frequent violent storms. Read More »

Spellers are competing for a trophy and more than $40,000 in cash and prizes. The finals will air in two parts: The first part will air on ESPN2 from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m., and the second part will air on ESPN from 8:30 p.m.to 10:30 p.m. For each of the past three years, the bee ended in ties after the contestants successfully completed the competition's entire list of words. After Gabrielle spelled similitude correctly, she pumped her fists, jumped off and hugged a friend who had yet to spell. Read More »

Perhaps it is naive to think that organizers of Sunday's rally might have actually listened to the mayor and allowed Portland to mourn the loss of those two fine men without further upset. "I want future generations to remember what happened here and why it happened and what they were willing to give to do the right thing", Wheeler said. Read More »

Withdrawing from the Paris agreement is one of major electoral promises made by Donald Trump during 2016 presidential campaign. Juncker pointed out that climate change was putting 83 countries at risk of disappearing from the map as sea levels rise. Read More »

The V12 engine of the luxury sedan was running, the brake lights were on and the right turn signal had also been left on. His auto was found with two flat tires on the driver's side and minor damage to the rims and bumpers. I can imagine that he's also dealing with quite a bit of stress, not being able to stay healthy and play the sport he loves. "Woods had extremely slow and slurred speech", a copy of the police report published by USA outlets said. Read More »

What will James Comey's testimony to Congress reveal? Special counsel Robert Mueller has appointed Andrew Weissmann to his team, a department official confirmed Wednesday. Trump's alleged request occurred after Comey, the now-fired FBI chief, acknowledged the existence of said investigation. Comey has notes of his conversations with Trump. Read More »

These were the words that Raleigh County's Kelly Mills spelled correctly in the preliminary rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Many spellers play sports in their leisure time , but few are elite athletes. Spellers were assigned numbers in a random draw this year, and Edith got No. Read More »

The tweet stayed up all night, trending worldwide to much merriment. He probably wanted to type out the word "coverage", but what came out was gibberish. BBC News reports that Trump is very close to pulling out of the Paris Agreement , which is the world's most serious attempt at kerbing the effects of global warming. Read More »

Evergreen State College says the college is closing immediately for the day in response to "a direct threat to campus safety". After weeks of unrest, hundreds of students protested last week , citing institutional racism and bias on the campus by some of the college's employees. Read More »

Taylor, who opposes the relaxation of gun legislation , went on to suggest that laws are needed because people can not be trusted. "This bill would also lower the age to carry a concealed handgun in public to 18, making North Carolina only the sixth state to let teenagers carry concealed, loaded handguns in public without a permit", Clark argued. Read More »

Crutcher's family was outraged with the decision as were protesters seen outside the Tulsa courthouse. But the reaction in Tulsa was more muted, with protests but no violence. Shelby told the jury in her own defense on Monday that she was taught during law enforcement training that if a suspect reaches into an area like a auto, an officer does not let them pull their arm back because they might be holding a gun, according to the Tulsa World . Read More »

Walberg's comments come just as President Trump is reportedly planning to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord , a landmark global agreement signed by President Obama past year that limits greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Read More »

Since its beginning, Trump's presidency has been weighed down by a constant stream of leaks that have, so far, prevented the real estate mogul-turned-leader of the free world from doing much in the way of leading his party or country. Mr Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery on Monday to mark Memorial Day, but had to quickly pivot to the Russian Federation uproar after returning to Washington last Saturday from his first worldwide trip since taking office. Read More »

One of the men, 53-year-old veteran Ricky Best , died on the train, while another young man, 23-year-old Taliesin Namkai-Meche, who had recently graduated from college, died at the hospital from his wounds. A girl leaves a message at a makeshift memorial for two men killed after intervening when a man shouted anti-Muslim and other hate speech on a train on May 29, 2017 in Portland . Read More »

Hillsdale Invest Management Incorporated, Ontario - Canada-based fund reported 6,350 shares. On Thursday, September 10 the stock rating was initiated by RBC Capital Markets with "Sector Perform". About 5.21M shares traded or 119.83% up from the average. It has underperformed by 27.24% the S&P500. Michael Kors Holdings Limited is a designer, marketer, distributor and retailer of branded women's apparel and accessories and men's apparel bearing the Michael Kors tradename and related ... Read More »

White House communications director Michael Dubke announced his resignation Tuesday. Dubke offered his resignation earlier this month, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told The Associated Press on Tuesday, but offered to stay on during the president's first foreign trip. Read More »

Trump also exchanged numbers with French President Emmanuel Macron when the two spoke immediately following Macron's victory earlier this month, according to a French official, who would not comment on whether Macron meant to use the line. Read More »

That's in part due to the president's business background; he is accustomed to maintaining flexibility so that he can negotiate, Hagle said. Neither the White House nor Justin Trudeau's office responded to requests for comment. "It's a tough job , especially when the press may be a little more aggressive", during times of controversy like the current administration is experiencing. Read More »

At this point, she said the connection she felt with Namkai-Meche is getting her through these challenging days. Two teenage girls who were being racially abused on a train last week were defended by three men. His felony convictions - for robbery and kidnapping - came in 2002, state corrections department records show. Only Micah Fletcher , 32, survived. Read More »

Leave this country if you hate our freedoms. During his appearance at the court , Christian also yelled "death to the enemies of America" and "death to Antifa ". Public defender Gregory Scholl has been assigned to Christian's case, Borg said. She continued saying that the suspect continued to threaten them and tell them that they should kill themselves and return to Saudi Arabia. Read More »

After just three months in the job , United States president Donald Trump's PR manager Mike Dubke announced he was to resign for personal reasons sparking questions as to whether he had had enough of the ongoing drama in the White House. Read More »

The White House on Wednesday took its first public steps to cordon off response efforts to the Russian Federation probe from the day-to-day work of the administration, acknowledging openly that President Donald Trump had hired an outside attorney to handle the swirling controversy. Read More »

Last night, the president either dozed off mid-tweet or masterminded a media madhouse by tweeting, " Despite the constant negative press covfefe ". Once again, Twitteratis are having a gala time trolling US President Donald Trump over a tweet. Read More »

All told, of the 188 spellers who remained at the end of the oral rounds, only 40 made the cut for the final rounds on Thursday. The Summerlin girl tied for No. "Look, Dr. (Jacques) Bailly, you're going to really need to come through for me right now, OK?" she asked. This is the first time Rajeev has made it to the Scripps National Spelling Bee but was the national championship victor at the Association of Christian Schools International spelling bee a year ago. Read More »

Mr Trump argued that Mrs Clinton should not be given access to classified information because she would leave it vulnerable to foreign foes. But Trump may be running into problems of his own. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. Neither the White House nor Trudeau's office responded to requests for comment . Read More »

Clinton also pointed to ex-FBI director James Comey , who was recently fired by president Donald Trump , for re-opening an investigation into her use of a private email account and server, just over a week before the election. Hillary Clinton pointed that Russian Federation, which she believes orchestrated a vast campaign of fake news to discredit her candidacy in the last year's presidential polls, as one of the reasons for her defeat. Read More »

Wearing a blue jumpsuit and flanked by two deputies, Christian reportedly spent the hearing yelling belligerent comments, including, "You call it terrorism, I call it patriotism", and "Death to the enemies of America". He made repeated outbursts, saying, " Free speech or die, Portland . The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance", he tweeted Monday - was welcome and needed. Read More »

Get out if you don't like free speech!" he reportedly declared. In a matchless show of co-existence and humanity, Muslim groups have raised almost half-a-million dollars for the families of the men killed in Portland, Oregon while trying to defend Muslim women from a racist attack . Read More »

Even in regions of the US where coal is plentiful, electric utilities are increasingly shifting to cheaper, cleaner-burning natural gas. It was the first legally-binding global climate deal. Polling on the Paris Agreement, which aims to reduce the negative effects of climate change caused by human activity, is inconsistent. Trump's advisers have been split about the Paris accord . Read More »

After just three months in the job , USA president Donald Trump's PR manager Mike Dubke announced he was to resign for personal reasons sparking questions as to whether he had had enough of the ongoing drama in the White House. Trump should not be allowed to evade accountability in the daily briefing just because it generates negative headlines that prompt angry late night tweets . Read More »

When asked if she was "leaning Trump ", Clinton replied, "Yes, I'm leaning Trump", Clinton replied. But surely Clinton sees herself as responsible for some of the decisions that led to her loss, right? We know it hurt us, as I explain in my book, the Comey letter, which was now we know partly based on a false memo from the Russians . Read More »

The president has yet to make a public decision on whether the United States will remain in the Paris Agreement , but this morning, Axios reported he had privately chose to withdraw. She said the agreement "honors our collective moral responsibility to leave future generations with a planet that is clean, healthy and sustainable". Read More »

Dubke, who had been in the job just three months, gave no reason for leaving. Controversy over the Russian Federation issue deepened after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey earlier this month, leading to allegations by critics that the president sought to hamper the agency's investigation of the matter. Read More »

Trump has privately and publicly pinned much of the blame for his administration's rough start on the White House's communications strategy. The new approach represents a different tack than one Trump himself took just hours earlier. In talks with Kislyak in December, Kushner floated the possibility of setting up a secure line of communication between the Trump transition team and Russia - and having those talks take place in Russian diplomatic facilities in the USA, essentially concealing ... Read More »